{"id":178334,"date":"2019-01-02T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/02\/both-the-wisest-and-the-snarkiest-thing-that-i-have-heard-this-year\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T23:59:00","slug":"both-the-wisest-and-the-snarkiest-thing-that-i-have-heard-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/02\/both-the-wisest-and-the-snarkiest-thing-that-i-have-heard-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Both the Wisest and the Snarkiest Thing that I have Heard this Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an analysis of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2019\/01\/pge-could-face-murder-charges-for-californias-wildfires.html\">potential murder charges against PG&amp;E for the California fires<\/a>, Yves Smith related the following from an email exchange:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Arbeit Macht Frei Slave-Labor Was the Original Public-Private Partnership.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is brilliant.&nbsp; It may be the most brilliant and snarkiest thing that I&#8217;ve heard for last year as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an analysis of potential murder charges against PG&amp;E for the California fires, Yves Smith related the following from an email exchange: Arbeit Macht Frei Slave-Labor Was the Original Public-Private Partnership. This is brilliant.&nbsp; It may be the most brilliant and snarkiest thing that I&#8217;ve heard for last year as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[464,389,504,412,390],"class_list":["post-178334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-history","tag-philosophy","tag-privatization","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}